Quotes About Wrong Motives

#1. How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.

Ray Bradbury

#2. Doing the right thing with the wrong motives is deplorable.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#3. Quite a lot of people wanted me to write about my family, I suppose for fairly obvious reasons, and there was always something that would stop me, I thought they were asking me for the wrong motives.

Emma Tennant

#4. The Industry's at war. I think it's about control. You can make all of the financial arguments that the industry has been shooting itself in the foot, but it is an industry built on a foundation of ownership and exploitation of intellectual property rights.

Don Rose

#5. Because all little girls deserve to be protected. Even the daughters of douche bags.

Kimberly Wollenburg

#6. I live my life with hope, always hope, that the future will be better than the present, but only as long as I work to make it so.

R.A. Salvatore

#7. Oh, I'm good. Seriously, after all these years, you'd think I would stop amazing myself. But here I am, still doing it.

James Dashner

#8. The truth is, most people who do what you'd call 'wrong' do it for what they call 'right' reasons.

Brandon Sanderson

#9. Learn from your disappointments and failures and with God's help seek to overcome them. Ask yourself, could I have done anything to prevent this? Were my hopes and dreams unrealistic, or were my motives wrong?
Is there a new path God wants me to explore?

Billy Graham

#10. How each of us comes for our own reasons." "Comes where?" "To be with them and listen to their message. What Stephen meant was that our motives are wrong. Our thinking is wrong. But if we come . . . with an open heart and mind, we will see the rightness of their declarations.

Janette Oke

#11. We have a choice to move ahead or allow ourselves to stay stuck in a rut.

Lisa A. Mininni

#12. 'Vogue' is a very beautiful magazine, an institution, and I learned so much working there.

Carine Roitfeld

#13. The more thou sweateth in training, the less thou bleedeth in combat.

Richard Marcinko

#14. Letting go is the one last option I have and I am too stubborn to take it

Samantha Jones

#15. and when I took my fingers down, there was the stain of the tears, tinged with mortal blood. And already there was begun in me the tingling of the monster that had killed, and would kill again,

Anne Rice

#16. You have no assurance that they are doing wrong at all, for the motives of man's actions are not always what they seem. There is generally much to learn before any judgement can be pronounced with certainty on another's doings.

Marcus Aurelius

#17. I won't sacrifice my characters morals/intentions/motives for the sake of what I believe is right or wrong. If the action fits the character it will be written. That's that.

James DeSantis

#18. What I do is not rocket science, but I sure do love it.

Kyle Chandler

#19. I love cleaning the house. I'd never have a cleaner - I wouldn't trust them to do it.

Chloe Sevigny

#20. A relationship with Christ changes your heart. It's not about your head. It changes your heart. Jesus comes to live in your heart, and even if a person does good works, but they do them without Christ, most of the time, their motives are wrong for why they do them.

Joyce Meyer

#21. My dreams were therefore undisturbed by reality; and I entered with the greatest diligence into the search of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life. But the latter obtained my undivided attention: wealth was

Mary Shelley

#22. Occasionally we all do wrong things from right motives. Only time can prove us right or wrong. The past is the past. Nothing can change it now, and who is to say that it was all wrong, anyway?

Mary Balogh

#23. Thus, relativism removes one of our most powerful motives to study the views of the other-the idea that the other might be right and we might be wrong.

David Detmer